News & Updates

Make Sure You Get Paid

By Paolo Dona — Aug 30, 2010

Cash flow is important for small and big schools alike, especially in a recession.

Getting paid is vital for your business, but many schools do not have a system in place to check which students need to pay their fees and when.

Sometimes it is difficult to track precisely when students have to pay. Some schools are strict and only enroll students who have paid for the entire course upfront, but others are more flexible and need to remember when a payment is due.

From today NiftySchool allows you to stay on top of your payments due with two new Alerts:

• Payment is due: Triggered seven days before a payment expires
• Payment overdue: Triggered when the paid period comes to an end

Alerts will appear in your Dashboard, in the student’s page and in the Alerts section.

These new alerts are based on the last ‘Paid up to’ date specified in the student’s payments. If the student makes a new payment, the alert will disappear automatically from the following day.

Only active students (or trial students) will be taken into account. No false alerts are generated for students who have finished their courses.

Make sure you populate the ‘Paid up to’ field in your payments if you want the alerts to be triggered.

Note that this new feature may generate a large number of alerts, especially if you have a large number of students.

If you find yourself checking too many alerts or you just do not need them, feel free to turn them off from the configuration page.

Alerts can be enabled and disabled individually from the configuration screen.